Infidels may scoff, but what if the film’s financiers have been handed enough money from the collection plate to address every one of Richard Dawkins’ tweets with its own two-hour feature? Cronk has already declared that God is not dead – twice. It must greatly frustrate the religious right when they are routinely (and unfairly) portrayed in major films as fanatical, sanctimonious, comical, backwoods hicks. She even suggested while on the film’s promotional tour that she herself has been persecuted for her religious beliefs. The real wait is for an illusory star witness to turn up and prove the revolting naysayers wrong. The film is essentially a courtroom drama, one that seems to last for the eternity God has promised all those participating. He talks in garbled legalese, coming across as a zombie acolyte who gobbles up any sense of cold, hard reality. Her cause is picked up by the lowly, but spirited union lawyer, Tom Endler (Jesse Metcalfe), a man whose chin-stubble is as delicate as his manner. This time around they are employed to guide high school teacher, Grace (Hart), as she fights for the right to mention Jesus in a history class. Case closed.įor those brave souls who weren’t converted by the first film, or maybe were baffled by its head-on approach, most of the original cast are back to add droplets of morality to a sea of half-baked rhetoric. Melissa Joan Hart is right, so God is real. Dialogue is liberally strewn with patronisingly blunt life-lessons: “When you’re going through something really hard, the teacher is always quiet during the test.” These are dished out as answers to the mysteries of earthly existence, and thus the film’s over-arching thesis is hammered home at every opportunity.
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